‘I don’t know where anyone is to begin in this business,’ said the Master.
‘I should begin,’ said Father Brown, ‘by asking where these unfortunate men had been most of the time today.’
‘They were messing about in my laboratory for a good time,’ said Wadham, speaking for the first time. ‘Baker often comes up to have a chat, and this time he brought his two patrons to inspect my department. But I think they went everywhere; real tourists. I know they went to the chapel and even into the tunnel under the crypt, where you have to light candles; instead of digesting their food like sane men. Baker seems to have taken them everywhere.’
‘Were they interested in anything particular in your department?’ asked the priest. ‘What were you doing there just then?’
The Professor of Chemistry murmured
